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Contemporary state terrorism : theory and practice / edited by Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy and Scott Poynting.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume aims to 'bring the state back into terrorism studies' and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy.Within this broader context, the volume has a number of specific aims. First, it aims to make the argument that state terrorism is a valid and analytically useful concept which can do much to illuminate our understanding of state repression and governance, and illustrate the varieties of actors, modalities, aims, forms, and outcomes of t
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Terrorism, the state and the study of political terror; 1 State terrorism in the social sciences: Theories, methods and concepts; 2 Darfur's dread: Contemporary state terrorism in the Sudan; 3 State terrorism and the military in Pakistan; 4 Israel's other terrorism challenge; 5 'We have no orders to save you': State terrorism, politics and communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat, 2002
- 6 The politics of convenient silence in southern Africa: Relocating the terrorism of the state7 Revenge and terror: The destruction of the Palestinian community in Kuwait; 8 Winning hearts and mines: The Bougainville crisis, 1988-90; 9 Paramilitarism and state terror in Colombia; 10 'We are all in Guantánamo': State terror and the case of Mamdouh Habib; 11 From garrison state to garrison planet: State terror, the War on Terror and the rise of a global carceral complex; 12 The deterrence logic of state warfare: Israel and the Second Lebanon War, 2006
- Conclusion: Contemporary state terrorism - towards a new research agendaIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-24515-0
- 1-135-24516-9
- 1-282-28451-7
- 9786612284519
- 0-203-86835-8
- 9780203868355
- OCLC:
- 466065312
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